| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A new system for grading recommendations in evidence based guidelines | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2001 | 1,303 |
| 2 | Death-rates in Great Britain and Sweden. Some general regularities and their significance* | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2001 | 87 |
| 3 | NEWSDIG: The National Early Warning Score Development and Implementation Group | Clinical Medicine | 2012 | 87 |
| 4 | Graduates of different UK medical schools show substantial differences in performance on MRCP(UK) Part 1, Part 2 and PACES examinations | BMC Medicine | 2008 | 76 |
| 5 | Death-Rates in Great Britain and Sweden: Expression of Specific Mortality Rates as Products of Two Factors, and some Consequences thereof | Epidemiology and Infection | 1934 | 75 |
| 6 | Cis‐platin and Methotrexate in the Treatment of Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Urinary Tract | British Journal of Urology | 1985 | 35 |
| 7 | Successfully Implementing Digital Health to Ensure Future Global Health Security During Pandemics | JAMA Network Open | 2022 | 22 |
| 8 | III.—On the Source of the Amniotic and Allantoic Fluids in Mammals | Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1908 | 21 |
| 9 | Politicians must heed health effects of climate change | Lancet, The | 2009 | 17 |
| 10 | Amanita muscaria (fly agaric): from a shamanistic hallucinogen to the search for acetylcholine | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2018 | 16 |
| 11 | The dissemination of the British guideline on the management of Asthma 2003 | Respiratory Medicine | 2004 | 15 |
| 12 | Circulating tissue-type plasminogen activator and plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 in proliferative diabetic retinopathy: a pilot study | Acta Diabetologica | 1999 | 14 |
| 13 | James Parkinson’s Essay on the Shaking Palsy | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2015 | 13 |
| 14 | Consensus Conference on Platelet Transfusion | Transfusion Medicine | 1997 | 10 |
| 15 | An international consensus for medical leadership on alcohol | Lancet, The | 2011 | 9 |
| 16 | Celsus: De medicina, Florence 1478. Part 1 | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2014 | 9 |
| 17 | Comparison of the specific mortality rates in town and country districts of Scotland since 1871 | Epidemiology and Infection | 1940 | 7 |
| 18 | International Forum Consensus Conference on Platelet Transfusion. Final Statement | Transfusion Science | 1998 | 7 |
| 19 | Consensus conference on unrelated donor bone marrow transplatation: its use in leukemias and allied disorders | Leukemia | 1997 | 6 |
| 20 | Rhubarb (Rheum Species): The Role of Edinburgh in Its Cultivation and Development | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2017 | 6 |
| 21 | The acute medical unit model: A characterisation based upon the National Health Service in Scotland | PLoS ONE | 2018 | 6 |
| 22 | Minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2019 | 6 |
| 23 | Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: a Review of Recent Alcohol Policy Developments in Europe | Alcohol and Alcoholism | 2019 | 6 |
| 24 | Consensus Conference on Platelet Transfusion: Final Statement | Vox Sanguinis | 1998 | 5 |
| 25 | The contribution of prescription chart design and familiarity to prescribing error: a prospective, randomised, cross-over study | BMJ Quality and Safety | 2013 | 5 |
| 26 | How is it best to deliver care in acute medical units? A systematic review | QJM - Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians | 2018 | 5 |
| 27 | Scientific surgeon of the Enlightenment or ‘plagiarist in everything’: a reappraisal of Benjamin Bell (1749–1806) | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2011 | 5 |
| 28 | Consensus conference on platelet transfusion: 27 and 28 November 1997: final statement | Leukemia | 1998 | 4 |
| 29 | Seven Reasons Why the Physical Examination Remains Important | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2021 | 4 |
| 30 | Three poisonous plants (Oenanthe, Cicuta and Anamirta) that antagonise the effect of γ-aminobutyric acid in human brain | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2020 | 4 |
| 31 | Cutting investment in the social care workforce will undermine the NHS recovery plan | BMJ, The | 0 | 4 |
| 32 | The bacteria of the stomach | The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology | 1893 | 3 |
| 33 | A sceptic and an empiric in medicine: George Young (1692–1757) and the beginnings of the Scottish medical Enlightenment | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2012 | 3 |
| 34 | Andrew Duncan and the health of nations | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2003 | 3 |
| 35 | PLASMA CHOLESTEROL, CORONARY HEART DISEASE, AND CANCER | Lancet, The | 1989 | 2 |
| 36 | Celsus: De medicina, Florence 1478. Part 2 | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2014 | 2 |
| 37 | Agricola’s De re metallica, 1556. Part I | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2015 | 2 |
| 38 | Smellie & Hunter: Atlases of the gravid uterus. Part 1 | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2016 | 2 |
| 39 | Zika virus, emergencies, uncertainty and vulnerable populations | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2016 | 2 |
| 40 | The ‘bloody Moloch’: Osler and van Helmont on bloodletting | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2017 | 2 |
| 41 | Sir Alexander Morison and The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases: Part 1 | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2018 | 2 |
| 42 | Preventing ‘where next?’ Patients, professionals and learning from serious failings in care | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2015 | 2 |
| 43 | Quality governance – a call to arms | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, The | 2018 | 2 |
| 44 | VII. Chemical examination of the oxides of manganese | The Philosophical Magazine: Or Annals of Chemistry, Mathematics, Astronomy, Natural History and General Science | 1828 | 1 |
| 45 | What is Psychology? | The Journal of Mental Science | 1859 | 1 |
| 46 | On the Principles and Method of a Practical Science of Mind, in Reply to Dr. Thomas Laycock, Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh | The Journal of Mental Science | 1862 | 1 |
| 47 | On the Practical use of Mental Science | The Journal of Mental Science | 1862 | 1 |
| 48 | Observations on the Movements of the Pollutions of the Tyne Estuary during the Summer of 1901 | The Journal of Hygiene | 1902 | 1 |
| 49 | Experimental and clinical observations on the urine and blood in nephritis | The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology | 1909 | 1 |
| 50 | A proposed joint College programme for senior house officer training | Medical Education | 1994 | 1 |
